CFP: [Graduate] SUNY at Stony Brook 2009 English Graduate Conference

Call for Papers for the 21st Annual Stony Brook Manhattan GraduateStudent ConferenceThe Desire for Representation/The Desire of RepresentationStony Brook Manhattan, New YorkSaturday February 21st, 2009The Stony Brook Manhattan Graduate Conference, the longest runninginterdisciplinary graduate student conference in the nation, welcomespapers and panels from all disciplines within the Humanities and SocialSciences.Why do we study? Why do we create? Why do we continue? Theories of desiresuggest the continual progress toward something that perhaps never quiteachieved. The brilliant Anne Carson writes, â€œthere would seem to be someresemblance between the way Eros acts in the mind of a lover and the wayknowing acts in the mind of a thinker.â€ Both engage in reaching and hoveron the verge of grasping. Accordingly many of our pursuits as scholarsabsorb themselves in seeking ways of knowing, and are transformed in theact of creation through diverse representational mediums. We seek papersexploring and expanding upon the dynamic intersections betweenrepresentation and desire.

Abstracts (no longer than 250 words) for 20-minute papers that provideauthor's name and paper title in heading due by January 7, 2009 tosbengcon2009_at_gmail.com.